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The schedule for the KDE developers room talks at FOSDEM is now online. Our final interview with the speakers is with Scott Wheeler who will be giving a talk titled “KDE 4: Beyond Hierarchical Data, The Desktop as a Searchable Web of Context”. FOSDEM is this weekend, see you there.
Please introduce yourself and your role in KDE.
KDE is not a centralized body, but a vibrant community of hundreds of talented individuals. That means there’s hardly anything that wasn’t thought about at some point. We do have developers that feel strongly about python and especially ruby, and that push heavily in that direction. The conclusion? As of today, no bigger applications have yet been written in those languages for KDE; and those started in these alternative languages switched to C++ at some point. Personally I like having RAD languages like python and ruby available, but I wouldn’t want my core desktop applications to use them. C# and Java are different as they are more general purpose system programming languages than RAD languages. Not only in that respect are they very close to C++. Had there been a fast JIT-compiling open source JVM, then the Qt/Java native API would probably have been a lot more popular, and we would see more Java in KDE. C# is definitely interesting in the longer term thanks to the Mono project.
Indirectly. KDE’s main purpose has always been to provide a smooth and friendly end-user experience appropriate even for those people who wouldn’t label themselves `geeks’. Since most people get exposed to other, particularly mainstream, operating systems and desktop environments before they have a chance to try KDE, it’s natural that we see more migration to KDE than we see users for whom KDE is their first desktop environment. And since previous experience influences what we perceive as user friendly, it is also natural that KDE follows and benefits from some of the paradigms created in the MS-Windows and Macintosh world. We arrive there indirectly, by listening to user requests, not following the direct route of simply copying existing systems.
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